interpreter
C1445
concept
An interpreter is a program or component that directly executes instructions written in a programming or scripting language by reading and performing them line by line without first compiling them into machine code.
All labels observed (15)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| interpreter canonical | 23 |
| command-line interpreter | 16 |
| programming language interpreter | 5 |
| interactive programming environment | 3 |
| read–eval–print loop | 3 |
| bytecode interpreter | 2 |
| scripting environment | 2 |
| Haskell interpreter | 1 |
| PostScript interpreter | 1 |
| Python interpreter | 1 |
| Ruby interpreter | 1 |
| interactive REPL environment | 1 |
| page description language interpreter | 1 |
| scripting language interpreter | 1 |
| software interpreter | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: interpreter
Generated description
An interpreter is a program or component that directly executes instructions written in a programming or scripting language by reading and performing them line by line without first compiling them into machine code.
Instances (59)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Malinalli | — |
| Angelina (Native American woman) | — |
| Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay | — |
| Ghostscript | page description language interpreter |
| Unix shell | command-line interpreter |
| PyPy | Python interpreter |
| REPL (F# Interactive) | interactive programming environment |
| La Malinche | — |
| CCP | command-line interpreter |
| Console Command Processor (CCP) | command-line interpreter |
| Windows Command Prompt | command-line interpreter |
|
Fish (when installed)
surface form:
fish shell
|
command-line interpreter |
| Tcsh | command-line interpreter |
| Tupaia | — |
| CLI (AmigaShell) | command-line interpreter |
|
Soyeon
surface form:
Soyeon Schröder-Kim
|
— |
| GW-BASIC | programming language interpreter |
| Tisquantum | — |
| FreeCOM | command-line interpreter |
| Mathieu da Costa | — |
| Toussaint Charbonneau | — |
| Hugs | Haskell interpreter |
| Soyeon Schröder-Kim | — |
| Matz's Ruby Interpreter | programming language interpreter |
| MRI (Matz's Ruby Interpreter) | software interpreter |
| Zsh | command-line interpreter |
| Fish shell | command-line interpreter |
| Almquist shell | command-line interpreter |
| Alexander von Siebold | — |
| Frontier scripting environment | scripting environment |
| George Drouillard | — |
| Conrad Weiser | — |
| Locomotive BASIC | programming language interpreter |
| MiniScheme | programming language interpreter |
| utop | read–eval–print loop |
| elm-repl | read–eval–print loop |
| Parrot virtual machine | bytecode interpreter |
| Squanto | — |
| Étienne Brûlé | — |
| GhostXPS | — |
| Dis virtual machine | bytecode interpreter |
| Sacagawea | — |
| C shell | command-line interpreter |
| Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh | — |
| CP/M Console Command Processor (8-bit CCP) | command-line interpreter |
|
MS-DOS COMMAND.COM
surface form:
COMMAND.COM
|
command-line interpreter |
| CMD | command-line interpreter |
| Jim Tcl | scripting language interpreter |
| Kim So-yeon | — |
| DIGITAL Command Language | command-line interpreter |